Originally Posted by
Al Sacco So Microsoft, HP and ASUS recently announced the
first "always connected PCs," the
ASUS NovaGo and
HP Envy x2.
We've been anxiously awaiting the dawn of the Windows 10 on ARM age, and it's finally almost here. That's exciting ... but I can't help but wonder how many people will actually buy one of these first devices.
They're expensive, and I'm not all that sure the value proposition is there for me. I think many other folks are in the same boat.
What do you think? Are you excited about the first two always-connected PCs? Why or why not? Taking it a step further, are you going to buy one?
I think the Asus one is pretty good and I'd buy one if I didn't have a Surface Pro 4, since it would probably fit my use scenarios pretty well. Plus I like the quality of its components and features. It's almost like a Surface.
I'd rather have them than to be a cheap tablet, but they will come and there will be perfectly useable ugly and cheap tablets soon too. And things that aren't tablets, that's the most interesting aspect of this.
I think that there will be phones like this, but not from MS. I mean straight phones with Windows 10 on ARM plus telephony in a standard slab format with Cshell that looks like W10M. MS will do their thing, but someone else will make them once Cshell is out, with Windows Core and telephony support.